Futures Trading News as of 7/10/08

Derivatives and futures trading goes online (The Nation - Thailand’s English news) Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) subsidiary settrade.com, in cooperation with South Korean broker Daishin Securities Co Ltd, will launch ... Futures Exchange (TFEX) begins online trading in SET 50 Index futures. Speculators become largest [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 16:53:07

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Common Questions About Currency Trading

Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders ... from other markets?Unlike the trading of stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take ... .Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:21:00

Kungfutrader.com Portfolio positions

Each week, we will update current positions indicated by our proprietary trend following system for the futures markets and our Ultimate Stock ... Trading System.  Positions as of Friday in the futures may be seen in the accompanying spreadsheet.  At this point in time, due to continued bearish conditions in the stock market, there are no ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:47:55

Secondary Markets

Financial institutions play a key role in matching primary market players who need money with those who have extra funds, ... ), the Chicago Board of Trade (the CBOT trades futures and options), and the Tokyo Stock Exchange ... of an outcry auction is the CBOT, where traders actually meet in a pit and sellers and buyers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 00:53:36

Auto bailout fails. What a mess.

The deal died in the Senate, so Wall Street's likely to take a dive.The failure of Senate talks on a $14 billion deal to rescue the U.S ... Yasutoshi Nagai, chief economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC in Tokyo. U.S. stock futures were lower in screen trade with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down 320 points; spreadbetting firms in Europe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:09:45

Bloodbath

I had warned readers against assuming that because we had a bounce in the equity markets, that life would soon return to normalcy ( ... that level). US stock futures trading has been restricted because it has fallen below 6%, its daily ... . A more aggressive than expected production cut by OPEC has done nothing to stem the fall of oil, down 5%. Gold [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 10:46:40

Dow Directions 12/22/08

Dow Directions 12/22/08 December 23rd, 2008 by Uncle Mike Another wild day on Wall Street ... in the comming weeks. Technorati Profile Relevant Tags:candlesticks, day trading, futures, market directions, mechanical trading, momentum oscillators, moving averages, online trading, stocks and commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 15:49:19

MCX gets nod to begin stock exchange operations

After launching carbon trading and currency futures, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ... , has spot and futures trading in 60 commodities with a focus on energy basket and metals. It launched ... Nations mandate. This can be sold either immediately or through a futures market, just like any other [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:17:49

Another Ponzi Scheme

Broken Record I’ve said it all before.  The following press release can be found here ... the funds in an account that would trade in securities futures contracts, including S&P 500 stock index futures. According to the complaint, despite the impressive and consistent returns he reported [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 03:37:41

Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre

Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... , trade over 100 highly liquid global futures contracts, including stock indexes, bond indexes ... compared to a 15.6% gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:38:44

Opening Comments October 9 2008

Prices of Treasury securities registered bifurcated results in the overnight trading session ... percent to 1.50 percent. Trading in the futures markets indicates that US stocks will open with sharp ... yesterday and only alluded to it there. When the trading day begins I will develop some follow [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:54:23

Other Markets (2)

Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51

Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall

By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57

Flawed system

11 November, 2008 General News/Issues   Source TheStar Tuesday November 11, ... trading on the world stock exchanges. These commodities are traded in the futures markets where ... changes. Hedge funds and other speculative investment funds control about 60% of the wheat traded [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 05:15:24

Is it Easy to Make Money From the Forex Capital Markets?

You probably won’t find many investors claiming that any investment opportunity is easy, ... that are structuring the other sorts of investments out there, be it equity, futures and stocks trading ... , opening up an account and start building your portfolio right away. Pairing a 24 hour investment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 05:30:43

Introducing GalaTime 5L Virtual Portfolios

I’ve been mulling over some new initiative in the area of portfolio management for retail investors in India ... . Q: Is this an investment / trading game? Is this an online tool that allows me to track ... ; these include - stocks, stock & index futures & options, ETFs, commodity futures &amp [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:18:04

Closing Down Early in 2008

December is usually a slow month in the markets, and volume tends to dry up around the middle of the month as investors, ... as one of the worst years in history for the major equity averages. Trading volume in futures, stocks and options has declined as investors have reduced risk after a trying year that left much [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:27:07

Reassessing Roubini's Predictions

Unfortunately for Roubini, there is no Nobel Prize in Economic for being the best predictor of global financial markets ... , Nouriel predicted the potential shutdown of financial markets. A day later U.S. stock futures suspended trading after declines of more than 6% at opening tripped the circuit breakers. Nonetheless [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 08:05:00

Opening Comments September 18 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have tumbled in overseas trading as the concerted efforts of central banks around the globe to reduce tensions ... to 1.5 percent. Futures market trading indicates that US stocks will open about 1 percent higher. Asian ... percent. The 2year/10 year spread has narrowed by 7 basis points to 169 basis points. The [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 11:27:03

Some Opening Comments September 10 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have retreated in European trading reversing some of the outsized gains attained yesterday ... in Asia and are declining in Europe. Futures market trading ... the tone for fixed income market trading. Lehman Brothers stock declined 50 percent yesterday so it does [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 11:06:18

How To Make A Killing In The Forex Capital Markets

How To Make A Killing In The Forex Capital Markets January 8th, 2009 by WonderBoy Filed under: ... and regulations as the other sorts of investments out there, be it equity, futures and stocks trading ... to a broker’s office just to open an account with them so you can start trading. Pairing a 24 hour [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:11:22

HMS Walmart Warns

StreetInsider reports on Walmart December sales. I will grant one excuse I usually dismiss. The weather was bad in some regions ... futures and the stock tanked in pre-market trading. More evidence of containment not being ... market share or I don't know, Princess Ponies pooping pillow mints. It can only be hoped that bad news [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:33:00

How To Make A Killing In The Forex Capital Markets

You probably won't find many investors claiming that any investment opportunity is easy, even for the Forex capital markets which are ruled by the same rules and regulations that are structuring the other sorts of investments out there, be it equity, futures and stocks trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:47:54

Wall Street signals quiet start to 2009

(AP:NEW YORK) Wall Street expected to start the new year with quiet trading Friday. Stock futures showed little direction as most investors appeared to be waiting until Monday to begin 2009 trading in earnest. The final session of a holiday-shortened week follows a terrible year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:02:53

Early Forex Income Engine Student Results

Dear Fellow Trader, I just got a note from Bill Poulos, developer of the brand new Forex Income Engine home study course, ... with trading futures, forex, stocks, and options. Only ... where he shares some actual feedback from some of his new students who picked up the course [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 16:11:29

Early Forex Income Engine Student Results

Dear Fellow Trader, I just got a note from Bill Poulos, developer of the brand new Forex Income Engine home study course, ... with trading futures, forex, stocks, and options. Only ... where he shares some actual feedback from some of his new students who picked up the course [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 16:12:01

What’s Investing All About?

Forex trading strategy is also quite different from futures market investing and desired results - other than making money of course - are different ... of stock market investing. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book ... . Online stock trading is without a doubt, one of most convenient ways to get into the stock [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 06:02:28

How is Forex Trading Different?

How is Forex Trading weird? Now, whereas of self-confident regulatory changes that occurred in the behind ’90’s and the explosion of apartment ... (FOREX) settled trading stocks or commodities (futures), including liquidity, leverage, costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:00:49

4 Links I liked:

4 Links I liked: Posted November 7th, 2008 by itrade4real Financial bonds business commodities corn dollar ETF finance futures gold loss markets Money profit risk stock trading treasury Wheat Read the full article: http://www.itrade4real.com/2008/11/links-i-liked.html10vote Our catalyst today is the payroll data at 8:30 am. Not much [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 13:46:45

Volume in Futures and the Stock Market

My approach to trading is based on the objective evaluation of the "Energies" in the markets ... in every trade - for example, you can't use volume to trade the spot Forex market since it doesn't ... in electronic format for home study (previously only taught in my live seminars). Please leave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:29:08

Cyklotron 2.4

New technical analysis method. New formulas and indicators. Professional tool for market analysts. Stocks, commodities, forex, futures and t-bonds trading become unexpected effective. EOD data in csv and prn formats. Cyklotron finds and optimizes quotes cycle and it generates traading signals [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 07:50:05

Dow Up 890 After Ten-Times Increase in Commercial Paper Sales

US equity markers were already having a very good day, even by the standards of recent high market volatility, ... Davis, an independent trader active in Treasury and stock-index futures at the Chicago Board of Trade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:36:01

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead ... in light holiday trading (AP) AP - Wall Street rose modestly in light holiday trading...European stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

A Stock Market Breakout and Other Tuesday Observations

* Upside Breakout - The chart above shows the 2 hour moving average of NYSE TICK (pink line) versus the ES futures for the last four trading sessions. When we corrected back toward the ES 860 ... of stocks trading on upticks--creating a powerful breakout move to multiday highs. The persistent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 21:40:56

Personal Finance Blog Tickers

Sometimes, in talking to people, I refer to Blueprint for Financial Prosperity as BFP ... , financial and reputational issues that shape their futures.” It’s traded on the NYSE and is down ... and development of gold and silver deposits in Mexico and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 20:54:12

Markets and timeframes for price distribution charting

Have a trading related question? Submit it here. I received a set of questions following on my How to identify price targets for your trades post ... ? What about commodity markets like mini gold futures etc ? What about applying this method on US stock markets ... , like Nikkei or even Singapore’s small futures market, the SIMSCI futures. What I would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:44

Some Opening Comments November 6 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting mostly muffled gains in overnight trading ... fell 4 percent. In Europe stocks have fallen between 3 percent and 4 percent. Stock futures ... percent and the yield on the Long Bond is unchanged at 4.18 percent. The 2year/10 year spread is 237 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:58:29

Job Report Jolts Wall Street

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks tumbled Wednesday morning after a pair of weak readings on employment raised the alarm ahead of Friday's bigger ... were down in afternoon trading. The London FTSE lost 2%.The decline in futures and international stock indexes follows a relatively strong day on Wall Street. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:26:00

Futures Signal Recovery

EUROPEAN MARKETS HIGHER FOR SIXTH DAY DESPITE OIL RISE U.S ... and the latest housing figures - are due out shortly after the trading day opens. Equities ... , where stocks have climbed six straight trading days in an affirmation of central bank efforts to stem [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:11:14

Stock Market Dictionary - D

DFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is a new issue, such as the result of a reverse split ... commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. Exchanges usually impose ... in the context of stocks to refer to the date trading begins on a new stock issued to the public.Date [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:33:00

TREASURIES-Drop further in new year as risk appetite improves

U.S. Treasuries fell in Asia on Friday, extending losses on the first trading day of 2009 as a recovery in stock and credit markets spurred selling of safe-haven government bonds. * The surge in Treasuries stalled last week as bond investors ... in Tokyo and Shanghai among those still closed for holidays. U.S. futures markets for stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 06:26:56

Free Stuff for Stock Traders

You may think that resources for stock market traders are expensive ... Store icon, then the Search icon, type in 'Stock', and click Search. Free Trading Magazine A free subscription to SFO Magazine is available, which covers stocks, futures, options, forex and ETF's [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 04:20:25

Free Stuff for Stock Traders

You may think that resources for stock market traders are expensive ... Store icon, then the Search icon, type in 'Stock', and click Search. Free Trading Magazine A free subscription to SFO Magazine is available, which covers stocks, futures, options, forex and ETF's [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 07:16:35

A personal letter from Satan to Henry Paulson

January 6, 2009 — Stefan Fobes A Personal Letter from Satan to Henry Paulson3.31 ... of all financial instruments and assets at the close of the trading day, as is currently done with commodities futures and stock options the banning of “off balance sheet” accounting the banning of offshore [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:38:26

Opening Comments October 06 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging in overnight trading as the massive maelstrom known as the credit crisis intensifies ... a battering in overnight trading. On Balance, equity markets have dropped from 3 percent to 6 percent. Equity futures trading portends a drop of close to 3 percent for US stocks. Against that background [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 09:59:10

Oil Falls Below $40 as Mideast Fighting Rages

LONDON: Oil fell below $40 a barrel on Tuesday, pressured by gloom about prospects for world economic growth which outweighed heightened tensions in ... this year, its biggest annual fall since futures began trading 25 years ago. It has dropped more than ... and gasoline stocks increased by 1.5 million barrels. Weekly U.S. fuel inventory data is due [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:22:57

About

I go by the moniker Complacent Panda. I discuss topics, largely, in the economics field, with some tangents into politics, art, philosophy, ... the skills necessary for trading in the stock market, the forex market, or on the options exchange ... for future interest in investments, and was in first place for total profits. While the .com bubble [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 00:02:00

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08

World Markets Tumble on Last Monday in October

Last week was an ugly on stock markets, but not as terrifying it might have been ... tumbled again today. U.S. stock index futures are pointing to a sharply lower opening this morning ... carry-trade, borrowing in low-interest yen and in investing in higher-yield markets, is being unwound [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 12:52:41

India Halts Trading of Stocks, Bonds, Rupee on Mumbai Attacks

BLOOMBERG - Chen Shiyin and Pooja Thakur Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) ... commandos battled to free hostages held by gunmen at two luxury hotels. S&P CNX Nifty Index futures ... and National Stock Exchange were shut, along with bond, foreign exchange, commodities and money [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 02:58:22

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